9 ideas
14637 | Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael] |
14636 | Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael] |
14640 | Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael] |
14638 | Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael] |
16285 | A possible world can be seen as a complete and consistent novel [Jeffrey] |
19155 | Instead of gambling, Jeffrey made the objects of Bayesian preference to be propositions [Jeffrey, by Davidson] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |